skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned, Figma is the de facto standard for UX design. Probably six or seven out of ten websites, apps, and desktop applications were designed on Figma, if they're relatively new. But Figma doesn't make sites, it's just a tool for designing them.

If you sign up for Figma, you can quickly get a sense of what it does. Some features are behind a paywall, but mostly things related to collaborating or managing large teams and design systems.

There are also approximately 1 billion Figma tutorial videos on Youtube that would show you the interface.
Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work
I think maybe your memory decieves you?

The great thing about unix is that there are no "wars" over these things, because everybody gets to decide for themselves.

Well at least that's how it was before systemd -- and all of DJB's unix work long predates systemd. By the time systemd came around DJB had been focusing on ECC exclusively for almost a decade.

The way I remember it is that most people didn't understand DJB and just kinda ignored his work, while a bunch of other people recognized what he was on to and integrated his ideas into software with frendlier user interfaces. For example, runit, which is PID1 for Void Linux to this day, and s6, which is PID1 for both Liminix ("NixOS-on-your-wifi-AP") and Spectrum ("Qubes for Nix"). Indeed increasing numbers of NixOS users are ditching systemd for s6.

Anyways I don't remember anything close to a "holy war".
I did this during the pandemic, using Jamulus. I'm a jazz bassist. I felt that the amount of latency was a mixed bag, depending on your Internet service. Just because you're in close physical proximity to other players doesn't mean your latency is short.

Also, it works as advertised if you play an electric instrument and can block out the natural sound of your instrument with headphones. For this reason, electric bass was a lot easier than upright bass for me.

Many of the musicians are not techies, and explaining these details is impossible. "I took my headphones off because hearing the mix was messing me up" is a constant refrain. Trying to maintain a sense of time under those circumstances made it mentally fatiguing to play, and no fun, so I eventually gave up and started just working on my technique and improvisation.

Jamming with people outdoors was a lot more fun.
You can just check noises' svg for the source code:

https://github.com/Megaemce/Bonfire/blob/main/noiseSmall.svg...

<feTurbulence type="turbulance

basically creates Perlin noise.
It helps to have both a computational understanding, and a computational perspective of what minds do to understand why consciousness is needed.

Consciousness is a consensus mechanism. I've co-authored a book where we talk about what's the most computationally robust and biologically plausible model of consciousness. It is only now, two years after the book, that I realized that the best phrasing for what consciousness is must be one that takes into account the Truly Hard Problem of Consciousnss: Who is feeling it?
With every other phrasing or definition the "I" is implicit and taken for granted. So the question becomes "Why does this have to feel like anything?"

The answer, it turns out, is that both experience and the experiencer are constructed together in a virtuous loop. You are a constellation of experiences. Consciousness is the consensus mechanism by which a chorus emerges in this constellation. And why is one needed? Because the decentralized entity that is you must act as one at all times, and especially when rare risks or outstanding opportunities present themselves. When we take the "I" for granted, we simply do not realize the staggeringly immense computational challenge it is to stitch this subjective self together. What sets apart this explanation is not just this broad-strokes perspective, but the biologically plausible mechanism by which top-down expectations (your past experiences) match up with bottom-up sensory data (ambiguous and potentially overwhelming reality)

More here: https://saigaddam.medium.com/consciousness-is-a-consensus-me...
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Reward those that push for cultural changes, ship something in .NET, Go, Rust, Java, that would otherwise kept being done in C++, even though there is no technical reason other than "that is how we do around here".

Sure it doesn't kill all kinds of exploits, but it would already be an improvement.
So... it's a glider? The top fin does make it very likely.
Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance
Maps of Two Cicada Broods, Reunited After 221 Years
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The cooked form resembles saffron rice, an expensive dish made of rice and saffron. Indian leaders have taken the lead on foods and vaccines and ensured popular adoption and continues today.

https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/66098

https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/saffron-rice-or-kesar-rice...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53944723
Berkshire Hathaway cut Apple investment by about 13% in the first quarter
Allowing people access to bullet proof vests sure seems desirable to me!

But also I think the "treating the gunshot wound" analogy is a better fit. A crop that produces vitamin A is a treatment for population suffering from vitamin A deficiency. And "let people grow this crop" is a much smaller social problem than "dramatically reduce poverty".
More like a long wobbly curly straw that goes around Sagitarius A*
Terrible take. I never had a problem with any of my landlords, and I always rented houses. If something went wrong, fridge stopped working, HVAC broke, washing machine stopped draining, etc. the landlord would have someone out that day or the next or have an appliance delivered. My roommates and I didn't need to maintain an emergency budget for these things or be responsible for annual maintenance of everything.

I always had multiple roommates and we split the rent and happily had access to a much nicer home and neighborhood than we had any right to.

One landlord I had lived just one street over, in a similar house, so his family wasn't getting rich by any means. Another was some SE Asian immigrant woman and she was just getting by but the rental house was her retirement plan instead of a 401k.

When I eventually bought my first house at 26, I had a roommate come with me for a couple years until I had my first kid. Technically I was a landlord in that scenario, so does that make me scum too? I mean he was incredibly happy with the situation despite knowing I was turning some modest profit.
Ask HN: Where do you all go for state of the art ideas on growing mobile apps?
What's state of the art these days for growing a mobile app? Not building them, just the user retention and growth stuff.

Books seemed to have abandoned even addressing this concept like a decade ago :) I know there's the guy who sold the high school crush apps on Twitter whose 10gs a month for his private coaching thing. His name escapes me at the moment.

But what else are you all watching, reading, studying on the regular to grow a mobile app and keep people coming back to them.
that quote is impressive but it neglects to mention the chemical inputs that are enmeshed in those crop cycles
What do you mean by that? I don't think Zod is doing anything special as far as the TS type system goes, although its types are necessarily complex to make its "magic" work. But it's not executing code to infer the types
All all other forms promote no decency.
If it was that profitable then it would be cheaper? That doesn't even remotely make sense in the most superficial ways. I don't even understand how you'd think it does.

Maybe if there were infinite housing options? But housing supply is extremely low in the US in large part because larger corporations are buying up huge swaths of housing and turning it into rental housing... Because it's really really profitable. And since supply is low and prices are high, it's not possible for most renters to buy houses. Nobody rents because it's cheaper overall, they rent because you don't need tens of thousands of dollars upfront for a down payment, plus a great credit score. That is, unless you're in Boston or the like where you must pay first months rent, last months rent, a security deposit, and a realtor fee generally equal to one months rent, meaning for that relatively reasonable $3k 2br apartment, you need $12k upfront to move in. So why don't they just buy it? Because buying a 2 or 3br market rate flat in Boston or the surrounding municipalities would cost maybe from $700k to $2m. The further surrounding areas are only slightly cheaper and by the time you hit more affordable places, your looking at a 90 to 120 minute car commute each direction.

You either don't understand the math or you're not interested in understanding the math and just want to justify gouging people. Like I said, I own the exact type of building that most landlords own in the urban northeast. In fact, it was an absentee landlord rental building for decades and hasn't structurally changed since it was. I know EXACTLY how much it costs to operate this building, and how much labor it takes. That hand-wavy "but it's so expensive and takes so much work" garbage doesn't work on me. It's not labor-free and it costs money, especially if a roof needs to be repaired or the like, but that's true in all businesses and if you don't prepare for it well enough to not be a disaster when it happens, or you buy an instanely unreliable and maintenance-heavy building, that's not your customers fault. Even in our flat-roofed old timber-framed triple-decker, our very healthy and responsibly funded major repair savings and building expenses fund (roof repair, insurance, snow removal, water damage repair, etc) takes in a little over 5% of what our rental income would be in this fairly inexpensive market, and aside from the gardening and cleanup in the courtyard, we contribute nearly no labor outside of our own units.

There's a culture of entitlement among landlords, at least in the US, that completely skews their understanding of what they deserve for what they put in to something. You show real plausible expenses or labor that I don't have in my 19th century timber-framed building that most other landlords have, then I'll happily change my perspective. I've asked for that every time I've had this conversation but it just doesn't materialize.

You want to see what a lot of labor and expense for the amount of profit looks like? Look at the Eater article where the owner of Mei Mei in Boston details her P&L.
So you are actually in complete agreement that you can’t prove a negative and you also agree Greenpeace is not operating in good faith but rather is agenda driven.
Questioning the premise... is there a need for this? Chasing analytics is famously poisonous in other fields of content-creation.

I guess advertisers want to know exactly who's listening. The point of centralizing it like this would then seem to be to make it possible to validate your traffic through a theoretically impartial third-party.
I used to use the WeWork on the bottom floor (technically partial basement). This is definitely the vibe: Huge open floor, no windows. WeWork did an OK job trying to light it but, I could never shake the feeling that it felt like a scene from Fallout.

My two cents: If this building ever becomes popular again, it'll be because of the location and not because of the building itself. It's reasonably close both to "Van Mission" (the rebranding of that part of Market Street for high rise residential), a BART stop, and Hayes Valley. It's probably one good Twitter-esque city tax subsidy away from being fully occupied in 5 years.
> This is why I am very happy at a fast-growing small tech company where one can have honest conversations about the customer and the product. How do other people deal with this?

My experience is the opposite. Startups i've worked at were mostly 'boys clubs' where if you weren't part of a 'core group' then you were merely a mercenary. So you are in the same situation as in 'big tech' without the safety or prestige. You still have schmooze and 'manage up' to get into that core group of decision makers. Startups aren't immune from human nature.

startups as meritocratic wonderlands of creativity is not an idea based in reality.
Better than before is not necessarily good. There are still lots of warts and gotchas.

In that regard JavaScript is a lot like C++. You can write pretty good C++ if you know what you are doing but the old ways are still possible and haunt you in legacy code.
Modern SQLite #1: STRICT tables
You raise a good point regardless. The trust in science and technology is gone. We’ve been bamboozled so many times that we first see new developments with mistrust instead of wonder.
I’m surprised to see this comment was downvoted heavily. The quote is very popular around here, to the point where there is an Ask HN if it’s the most quoted quote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771186

Yet people don’t like it in this thread. Does it touch a nerve?
It is plenty for reaching conclusions, but it is not so great for reaching correct conclusions.

Is this not kind of what the point of meditation is for a lot of people, reaching higher planes of consciousness? And my understanding is that a common technique in meditation is to notice when thoughts arise (ie: truth), note them, and let them pass.
Not an SQL injection, but I opened Google in a private browsing window, searched for “php mysql tutorial”, and it brought me to the W3Schools tutorial, which has multiple other vulnerabilities relating to how PHP just dumps its output into HTML unescaped without a second thought. At a glance, I see obvious XSS and open redirect vulnerabilities.

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp
No it’s more like, does vscode lead to better code than jetbrains? Figma doesn’t really provide meaningful constraints on a design that would let you identify it as Figma sourced, much as you won’t be able to tell whether a site was written in a particular IDE.
How's it firewalled off and can the technique be used for other types of devices?
Construction Industry Database
The construction industry is a mess. It's still old-school based on personal relationships. You have to know someone to get it done.

That needs to change.

Right now, if you're starting a business, let's say a restaurant, there is no place you can go that will provide you with all of the information you need to get started.

I'm envisioning a comprehensive platform called BuildBase™ that would revolutionize the way businesses, particularly new ones, navigate the construction industry. Indeed, creating a centralized database augmented by AI could significantly streamline the process of starting and managing construction-related aspects of a business.

Such a platform could offer several key features:

Centralized Directory: A complete, searchable database of professionals across the construction industry, including architects, engineers, contractors, and suppliers. Users could search by specialization, location, ratings, and other relevant filters.

Project Management Tools: Integration of project management functionalities that allow users to plan, execute, and monitor construction projects directly through the platform. This could include timeline management, budget tracking, and collaboration tools.

Regulatory and Permit Guidance: A resource section that provides up-to-date information on zoning laws, permits, and other regulatory requirements specific to different regions and types of construction projects.

AI-Powered Matchmaking: Using AI algorithms to match projects with the most suitable professionals based on project specifications, budget, location, and previous client reviews.

Virtual Consultations: Incorporating features for virtual meetings and consultations with professionals, which can help in faster decision-making and maintaining project momentum.

Feedback and Rating System: A robust system for feedback and ratings that helps maintain high standards within the network and assists users in making informed choices based on past project outcomes.

By removing the necessity to rely solely on personal connections and making information transparent and accessible, such a platform could democratize access to construction services, potentially leading to more competitive pricing, higher quality work, and greater innovation in the industry. What do you think of these ideas? Would they meet the needs you see in the current market?
In Canada they add fire retardant chemicals to the cigarettes... So the whole it's about health argument kinda goes out the window. The truth is that some people hate smoking and so what it to be banned
Residents should absolutely be paid. Years of often times reaching 80 hours/week, treating patients, performing procedures, writing notes - all is valuable labor.

It is like saying we won't pay you for the first several years of your first dev job because it is primarily a ramp up / educational period.
Most places are on a hiring freeze but there are exceptions at the SVP level. Often this is what is being looked for is that excellent candidate.
I did actually try and get ChatGPT and BingAI and Google Bard to generate it. I didn’t know about Claude at the time.

The issue is that the thing he submitted was correct, so I was going completely off “vibes”; I never got it dead-to-rights with AI generating a one-for-one match. It got pretty similar, and ChatGPT text does have kind of a recognizable style to it, but I didn’t feel comfortable reporting a student for cheating and risking them getting expelled if I wasn’t 100% sure.

I might have tried to get him to do a one on one coding session, but this was the final exam and literally three hours after it I had to fly to the UK for an unrelated trip for three weeks. Grades were due in one week, so I didn’t really have a means of testing him.
We should stop spending tax payer money on useless shit and being wasteful with it. People are free to spend their own money however they wish.

You seem to not like the idea that a rich person spent money, but that’s the way for the money to get out to other people who are not billionaires. Some of that $120m undoubtedly went to pay musicians, chefs, cooks, florists, security guards, waitstaff, custodians, etc, etc, etc. If that wedding didn’t happen, those people probably would have missed out on their biggest pay day of the year.

Anyone who think billionaires have too much, should be happy when they see billionaires spend excessively, as it means that wealth is getting spread around. People who want some of it can start, or work for, businesses that billionaires would want to spend money with.
Up and Down the Abstraction Ladder
Bogus headline, the article doesn't include an attempt to explain the reasoning.
Was this entirely about the safety of the rice and not the intellectual property issues? That always seemed like a more serious issue with these.
>clearly the main reason fossil fuels are available, and people buy them despite high taxation on them, is that they're incredibly useful, and not because there's evil subsidisation

Laser-focusing down to only the "main" reason and ignoring all else will (as expected) miss the forest for the trees.

Subsidies still do cause people to consume more fossil fuels than they would otherwise, so the policy is encouraging pollution (AKA health injuries and deaths that industry shirks accountability for) rather than disincentivizing it.
Popover API Is Here
r/growyourbusiness
Pity that they decay into pointers all the time.

So that is pretty much worthless outside the current scope where they were declared.
Why Full Text Search Is Hard
The green revolution of India was primarily because of newer strain of crops and mechanisation to some degree. Chemical industry simply was not mature enough in 50s to have been a major factor.
vi. email. git
this is untrue, it's clearly web browser only and does not require camera during test - have you tried it yourself? maybe others use different evalground settings?
It's probably because it's a pedantipoint, more than anything else. The more important thing is the title is rewritten badly not just in spelling and grammar (a court can ban the cultivation or growing of something, not its 'growth') but in meaning (court revoked a previously granted license). But either way, if you think the title needs fixing, just email hn@ycombinator.com and the mods will likely sort it out.
HSBC banking app crashes leaving thousands unable to access their accounts
I think it's very surprising since the implication is that the royal family is backing the campus at a very high level.

Why would they want laxer standards that could only impair their reputation?

If anything they have strong incentives to enforce a higher standard to show the world their eminence and so on.
Using which PDF viewer?
What does that have anything to do with race? I don't really get it.
The key difference is that you are not working on the same side project doing the same thing for 40 hours a week for years. You probably change around you side project every few months and likely don't work on them full time.
I was scared of GM crops when they first started getting news attention, but I've flipped now. Quoting a Greenpeace representative, the article writes:

> “GM crops have never been proven safe,” Pelegrina asserted.

This might be true in some way, but what kind of proof are they looking for? What evidence has been presented that GM crops are unsafe? Proving the absence of something (health risk) is quite hard. On the other hand, GM crops have been consumed by many people for many years now and haven't found any large scale deleterious effects.
Simple Complex Programming
Fixed Rise and Run Rafter Cut Method [video]
Welcome to SmallBASIC
Even that isn't fullproof.

Microsoft has deprecated all pointer validation functions on Windows, because there were plenty of corner cases regarding pointer validation.
Exactly this.

This particular group of some specific biologists and philosophers can declare whatever they want.

But when you see how they attempt to define consciousness, it falls apart, because we don't have any objective definition of it.

The article states:

> The declaration focuses on the most basic kind of consciousness, known as phenomenal consciousness... If a creature is phenomenally conscious, it has the capacity to experience feelings such as pain or pleasure or hunger, but not necessarily more complex mental states such as self-awareness.

Unfortunately, we have no method whatsoever (yet) of distinguishing between creatures who genuinely feel pain/pleasure, and creatures who act in ways to avoid bad outcomes and seek good outcomes while feeling nothing, while we merely project our own feelings onto them.

We don't even have a scientific definition of the verb "feel" at all. We have utterly no idea what distinguishes neurons that contribute to conscious feeling, from neurons that are subconscious and produce no feeling at all.
You can look at it visually?
Seattle-based Hubble Network achieves first space Bluetooth link w satellites
> We strongly encourage anyone looking for work in this market, especially if you come from a non-traditional background, to stop spending energy on applying online, full stop. Instead, reach out to hiring managers

Absolutely true, at least for now. The techniques presented afterwards are straight-up inside sales prospecting 101 I predict that HMs will build up thick firewalls as desperation increases and these techniques become more widely known.
https://archive.org/details/fixed_rise-run_method_builders